Zeus was quite the playa...

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Ilaria Pagin has the definitive Visualization of Zeus's affairs, and we are all better off for it.  From the guide
Zeus's Affairs - A God, his Lovers and his Offspring.
Reconstruction of Zeus's genealogy as described by different authors, with brief description of each character.
Instructions
Relationships: Zeus is represented by the wide thick black circles of the scheme. In the inner part of these circles there are all his lovers, which are connected with coloured lines to their children.
Crossings between circles and lines represent a relationship.
Thin circles, in the central part of the diagram, represent brotherhoods.
It is remarkably (and ludicrously) comprehensive - go check it out!
(The image above is just that, an image. Go to the original)

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